Ok supreme, you are an alarmist highschooler. I taught high school, so maybe I can help you. This is essentially a discussion of the parameters of minhag kitniyos. There is an expansive approach, such as the Chaye Odom, and there is the conservative view as expressed in many similar subjects as ‘hava velo nosif alei’. The two issues with kitniyos were the contamination with other grains, and that in places of poverty, they were routinely mixed grain bread and kugels as filler. The Chaye Odom said ‘kitniyos and anything like them’ and there were other, and earlier halachic authorities that called the line at the potato, declaring that the minhag is limited to what was known then in early greater Ashkenaz. That clearly puts any New World product (white potatos, quinoa, peanuts, sunflower, etc. outside the parameters of the minhag. Still, we would have to check the unkitniyos item for mixed in chametz grains. And lastly for accuracy, for eating chametz, the result is kares. To err in kitniyos, there is no listed punishment. Enjoy your matzos.
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